Fowler

(Henry the Fowler). Heinrich I., King of Germany, was so
called, because when the deputies announced to him his election to the
throne, they found him fowling with a hawk on his fist (876, 919-936).
This tradition is not mentioned by any historian before the eleventh
century; but since that period numerous writers have repeated the
story. He was called in Latin, Henricus Auceps.